Do you want to give your photos or albums a certain atmosphere? Then you could use jAlbums new "ArtyFilter"that can be added to jAlbum as a plugin. It includes 8 different filters that you can apply to your photos to give them an artistic style.

The ArtyFilters use a variety of different techniques to give your images a unique expression. The palette of techniques include overlays, border masks, color tints, brightness and contrast adjustment and textures. Enough talking. If an image speaks a thousand words, then an album should speak ten thousand words :-), so here's a sample album that demonstrates the different effects:

Usage

To apply the artistic filters to individual images from within jAlbum's edit panel, just install the plugin and restart jAlbum, then "Edit" an image within jAlbum and click the Arty icon (a flower).

To apply an effect to all images of an album, you can open jAlbum's Advanced album settings->User variables and specify the filters like this sample shows:

This tool includes a component that shows the eight effects on a sample image at a time. It's integrated in the plugin and skin developers can actually embed it in their skin setting panels too. The whole Arty tool can also be bundled with a skin (just put it inside the "lib" folder of your skin).

All filters implements the JAFilter interface so it behaves like any of jAlbum's classic image filters. Here's a short code sample that shows how a skin can include the selector component of the artistic filters. So the user can choose the atmosphere of his album. You can pass a BufferedImage if you want the selector to use your own sample image.

I understand the wish for a Wordpress plugin, but it's a bit of a challenge to blend jAlbum with Wordpress. Just search for Wordpress within jAlbum's user forum for comments. All at http://jalbum.net/forum

The mime-type for "jaext" wasn't set up in our web server, and IE tries to be "intelligent" and looks at the content of a file to set the extension if the mime-type is missing. That's why the file got renamed if downloaded with IE. I've fixed that now so IE should keep the .jaext extention.

@sachhj, although the Artyfilter.jaext file is technically a zip file, you shouldn't unzip it. If jAlbum is installed right on your computer, you should see a jigsaw icon when you view the file, and double clicking it should install it in jAlbum. Don't unzip it, either double click it or drop it onto the jAlbum window to install it. When the tool is installed, you will find an "Arty" flower icon in the panel of image tools to the right of the image you're editing in jAlbum.